Makers and designers
The people and workshops behind the pieces we carry, and what we know about them.
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- Dansk Dansk was founded in 1954 by Ted and Martha Nierenberg around the designs of the Danish designer Jens Quistgaard, and became known for teak, enamel and stainless tableware.
- DeSimone DeSimone is the signature on hand-painted pottery from the Palermo workshop of Giovanni De Simone, whose name a present-day brand, Ceramiche De Simone, has revived.
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- Jens Quistgaard Jens Quistgaard (1919-2008) was the Danish designer behind Dansk, drawing its first logo and products in 1954 and more than 2,000 designs from the mid-1950s through the 1980s.
- JJ (Jonette Jewelry Co.) JJ is the mark collectors attribute to the Jonette Jewelry Company, an American costume jewelry maker known for figural and novelty pins.
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- Kari Christensen Kari Christensen (1938-1997) was a Norwegian ceramicist who designed for Royal Copenhagen's hand-painted Tenera faience in the 1960s, then ran her own workshop in Oslo making stoneware, porcelain and public art.
- Kosta Boda Kosta Boda is the Swedish glass group built around Kosta, the oldest working glassworks in Sweden, first fired in 1742, and the Boda and Åfors glassworks that joined it.
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- Maija Isola Maija Isola (1927-2001) was Marimekko's first textile designer and made 533 prints for the company, including Joonas in 1961 and Unikko, the poppy, in 1964.
- Marimekko Marimekko is the Finnish textile and design company founded by Armi Ratia in 1951, known for bold printed fabrics by designers including Maija Isola.
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- Stelton Stelton is the Danish stainless steel housewares company founded in 1960 by Niels Stellan Høm and Carton Madelaire, maker of Arne Jacobsen's Cylinda-line and the EM77 jug.
- Söwe Konst Söwe Konst was a Swedish maker of teak homewares and wooden furniture in Sövestad, Skåne, with pieces designed by Sigvard Nilsson.